E-grāmata: Advanced Manufacturing and Automation XIV

Prof. Dr. Yi Wang obtained his PhD from Manufacturing Engineering Center, Cardiff University in 2008. He is a professor in School of Business, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. Previously, he worked in Southampton University, Nottingham Trent University, Manchester University and Plymouth University. He holds various visiting lectureships in several universities worldwide. Prof. Wang has special research interests in supply chain management, logistics, operation management, culture management and, Neuromarketing, big data and data analytics, and Industry 4.0/5.0. Prof Wang has published over 100 technical peer-reviewed papers in international journals, book chapters and conferences. He has authored 3 books,, Operations Management for Business, Fashion Supply Chain Management and Data Mining for Zero-defect Manufacturing. etc., edited 6 books, and made 5 book chapters.





Dr. Tao Yu is the president at Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), China.Previously he was the president of Shanghai Polytechnic University (SSPU), China. He is  a professor at Shanghai University (SHU). He received his PhD from SHU in 1997. Prof. Yu is a member of the Group of Shanghai manufacturing information and a committee member of the International Federation for Information Processing IFIP /TC5. He is also the vice director of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, and the vice chairman of the academic committee of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing and Robotics. He managed and performed about 20 national and Shanghai local enterprises commissioned projects. He has published hundreds of academic papers, of which about thirty were indexed by SCI, EI. His research interests are mechatronics, computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS).





Dr. Kesheng Wang holds PhD degree in production engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Since 1993, he has been appointed Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU. He was a director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory (KDL) at NTNU. He is also an active researcher and serves as a technical adviser in SINTEF. He was elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) in 2006. He has published 22 books, 10 book chapters and over 300 technical peer-reviewed papers in international journals, book chapters and conferences. Professor Wangs current areas of interest are intelligent manufacturing systems, applied computational intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery, Predictive/Cognitive Maintenance and Industry 4.0.